Overall, some interesting thoughts in this article by Alexander Hellene [https://alexanderhellene.substack.com/p/temporal-investment?s=r ] Temporal InvestmentThe first in what will be an informal series of posts touching on life in the pre-Internet age. The Internet changed everything, some things for the better and some things for the worse. Music firmly falls into the latter camp. Popular music, at least. Rock music, in particular. But the industry as…A. Hellene AuthorAlexander Hellene [htt…
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As the commercialization of Christmas encroaches upon more and more of the year, one of the most obnoxious things to me is the insistence that most places have on playing "Christmas Music." Of course, the issue here is that so much of the so-called Christmas Music simply isn't. I used to consider it more an irritation at violation of seasonal boundaries - let's actually celebrate Thanksgiving first - but now I'm sure it's more of the content. I have no problem with playing or listening to "We T…
Things were actually slower this week, and next week, excepting a job that I'd have to get on a lift for an on-site mount, is going to be an opportunity to get some longer-term projects knocked out after catching a breather. That also means being able to catch some time with the gang other than the usual Saturday session. In the meantime, I discovered that Floor Jansen, the most recent and, in my opinion, best singer of the three who've fronted Nightwish as female vocalists, had appeared on a…
The post from the other day on Nightwish's new single [https://thelastredoubt.com/noise/], in concert with my other recent post on personal "brands [https://thelastredoubt.com/brands-are-shallow/]", has stayed on my mind. Apparently, there's a significant contingent of Nightwish fans that are "WTF" and not quit sure they like it, or will come to like it. I can see that. Not my concern. A lot of people have seen the first layer - the strong criticism of social media. What keeps pulling my att…
Like Peter Grant [https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2015/08/nightwishs-latest-album-is-different.html] , I have something of a love-hate relationship with Nightwish. I love their music, but the themes they touch on at times... eh. That said, it looks like it's time for a new album, and a new single has been released: Noise. Before we go there, a segue: If you want to skip the video, it's a discussion of how every public space is utterly polluted by sound - and not even beauty in music…